will I hear a fly buzz when I…? will my hands be too weak to…? once thunderous pink anvils, house builders unholy home wreckers woeful word weavers plan writers… now crossed, helpless and flaccid hiding under hospice wool shame covered by a thin green veil on my antique grey chest crossed, my heart-beating faintly my eyes scanning, slowly catching lonely light missing even the fly who is now in another room another world buzzing in another’s ear
the hearing a fly buzz is an allusion to Emily Dickinson, and Ernest Becker was the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the monumental work on the human condition, "The Denial of Death"